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Log Monitor mail flood prevention

05-12-2017, 17:45

Hi,
Recently I've created a log file monitor. and an action to inform by mail on patterns found in log files.
when monitoring /var/log/syslog, in case of a RAM issue the log is filled with thousands of errors and all are being caught and an email is being sent for each alert (which caused my email to receive 100,000 emails from zabbix log file monitor.